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GSM Arena
2 days ago
- GSM Arena
iPhone 17 Pro gets new colors
According to a new rumor, the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro will be offered in four colors: black, dark blue, silver, and orange. These are showcased in the image below, although this isn't a leak, just representative of what we should expect. The source says the dark blue is incredibly dark, so much so that it can look black in some ambient light conditions. It's apparently inspired by the Blue Titanium colorway of the iPhone 16 Pro. The black option is reminiscent of Black Titanium but with a matte finish. Silver is apparently closest to White Titanium, being "bright with warmer undertones". Finally what is most likely going to be the hero color is orange, inspired by the Action Button on the Apple Watch Ultra (yes, really), it's described as "vibrant yet balanced" and a perfect fit for those who aren't into understated hues. The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max are rumored to switch back to aluminum frames after a few years of experimentation, first with stainless steel, and then titanium. In case you've been wondering what's happened to previously leaked colorways like green, purple, and "Sky Blue", those are allegedly coming to other models - the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air. That said, there's also a surprise additional color that will be leaked soon, so stay tuned for that. Apple iPhone 16 Pro Source
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sarah Jessica Parker Confirms Longtime Rumor She Dated Former Costar Nicolas Cage
UPDATE 7/14/25 at 8:15 p.m. ET: After Sarah Jessica Parker confirmed the longtime rumor that she and Nicolas Cage once dated, the Face/Off actor responded by claiming that he was ghosted after meeting her mother. "I cared about Sarah, but I don't think I passed the mom test," Cage told E! News in a Monday, July 14, statement. "I recall sitting down with her and her mother for dinner at the Russian Tea Room, and I don't know if it was my blue Vanson Leather motorcycle jacket (which I still have) or my sinusitis, but I didn't hear from her again." Original story below: Sarah Jessica Parker just confirmed a longtime rumor about her love life. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's Relationship Timeline: From Broadway to Babies During the Sunday, July 13, episode of Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen asked the 60-year-old actress if she previously dated Nicolas Cage. The Sex and the City star was quick to disclose the truth. 'Um, yes I did,' she replied. 'Yes, I did.' Cohen, 57, responded, 'Oh, wow. Oh, we got some talking to do.' Parker and Cage, 61, costarred in Honeymoon in Vegas, which was released in 1992. In the film, Parker plays the love interest of both Cage and the late James Caan. While Parker didn't offer more details about the timeline of her past fling with Cage, it likely occurred before Parker met now-husband Matthew Broderick in November 1991. (Parker previously revealed she and Broderick didn't start dating until 1992.) The conversation about Parker's dating life came up after the actress revealed how she knew Broderick, 63, was The One. 'I just knew he was incredible, just spending a little bit of time with him,' Parker said of her husband. 'I think probably pretty early [I knew].' Parker was also the first one in their relationship who said, 'I love you,' just before she began a new project. 'I remember I had to leave to go on location to shoot a movie and we were on East 10th Street [in New York City] and I was getting in a car to go away for a while,' she said. 'I remember thinking, 'I love him.'' Matthew Broderick Reveals Why He Never Joined Wife Sarah Jessica Parker on 'Sex and the City' After deliberating for about a minute, Parker revealed her feelings. 'Nothing to lose, you know what I mean?' Parker continued, noting that Broderick said it back. Parker and Broderick were married by May 1997. The couple expanded their family with three kids: son James, 22, and twin daughters Tabitha and Marion, 13. 'We've been together for 20 years and you have good days, you have decent days, and you have bad days. That's a marriage,' Parker said in a December 2011 interview with The Telegraph. 'That's a relationship. That's a friendship, even — relationships outside the marriage run the same course.' She added, 'If you're in it for the long haul, and you want meaningful relationships, you are going to go through lots of different periods.'
News.com.au
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Stevie Wonder reveals truth about his eyesight during Cardiff show
He just called to say you're mistaken. Stevie Wonder addressed the longstanding rumour that he isn't actually blind during the Cardiff, Wales, stop on his Love, Light and Song UK tour. 'I must say to all of you, something that I was thinking, 'When did I want to let the world know this?' But I wanted to say it right now,' Wonder, 75, said as seen in an Instagram video from a concertgoer on July 10. 'You know there have been rumours about me seeing and all that? But seriously, you know the truth.' The musical legend then explained when he lost his sight. 'Truth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind,' Wonder continued. 'Now, that was a blessing because it's allowed me to see the world in the vision of truth, of sight. See people in the spirit of them, not how they look. Not what colour they are, but what colour is their spirit?' Over the years, many celebrities have made cracks about Wonder not really being blind. Anthony Anderson poked fun at the Grammy winner's condition while on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' in 2016. 'What y'all don't know is, Stevie can see,' the actor, 54, said while sharing the story of how he challenged Wonder to a basketball game. 'It's just an act.' Three years later, Shaquille O'Neal claimed Wonder recognised him in an elevator. The basketball star, 53, told his Inside the NBA colleagues that he was in the lobby of his building when Wonder came over and said, 'What's up, Shaq?' '[He] presses the button. Get's off on his floor. Goes to his room. I went and called every person I knew and told them the story,' he recalled. 'He got on the elevator and was like, 'What's up, Shaq? How you doing, big dog?'' The Superstition musician, meanwhile, has been extremely open about his loss of vision. In 2024, he shared how his mum, Lula Mae Hardaway, struggled with the news at first. Despite her reaction, Wonder kept a positive outlook. 'I was born. Shortly after that, I'm blind,' he expressed in an episode of The Wonder of Stevie audiobook series. 'My mother went through the different things, and so my experience with that was deep.' Wonder noted that his mother, who died in 2006, would cry 'every night' after he was diagnosed. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer finally said to her, 'Mama, you shouldn't cry, you're making my head hurt.' 'And I said, 'Maybe God has something for me that's bigger than all this,'' Wonder recounted. 'History proved that true.' In 2004, he detailed his upbringing for O, The Oprah Magazine. 'She didn't bind me up. She wasn't like, 'Don't step there!' or 'Watch out, you'll fall!' She'd tell me to be careful, but I was going to do what I was going to do. She was just fast enough to catch me,' he said of his mother. 'She knew I had to learn — and the more she allowed me to do, the more she could let go. She saw that I'd developed what's called facial radar, meaning that I could hear the sound of objects around me. If you close your eyes and put your hands right in front of your face, then move your hands, you can actually hear the sound of the air bouncing off your hands.' The artist has also kept a great sense of humour regarding his disability. Wonder got candid on his friendship with Jamie Foxx while presenting the actor with the Ultimate Icon Award at the 2025 BET Awards. 'He hit me up because of his win — Academy Award — for Ray. And I said, 'You know Jamie, just because you play a blind man that don't mean that we're besties, OK?'' he joked at the time. Wonder went on to tease Foxx, 57, and his 'love for blind people.' The Isn't She Lovely singer has won 25 Grammy awards throughout his career. Wonder also took home an Oscar in 1984 for Best Original Song I Just Called to Say I Love You for the film The Woman in Red. The star has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame and Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame. Wonder has been married three times. He previously was married to singer-songwriter Syreeta Wright from 1970 to 1972, and fashion designer Kai Millard Morris from 2001 to 2015. Wonder has been married to Tomeeka Robyn Bracy since 2017. He is also dad to nine kids. 'I give a lot of credit to the mothers of my children. They've raised the children well,' Wonder told Winfrey in 2004. 'But I'm not one of those fathers who just send money. I guide them as a father and talk to them as a friend. I always want my children to feel they can tell me anything.' In 2014, he'd go on to joke about his big family on The View, saying: 'I got, how many, 22 kids?'
The Guardian
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
How the rightwing sports bro conquered America
This February, Pat McAfee was broadcasting live on ESPN, the most watched sports network in the US, when he aired a salacious rumor about the sex life of a teenage college student. Once a workaday punter with the Indianapolis Colts, McAfee is now the most influential pundit in American sports with an eponymous ESPN show, who has more than 11m followers across YouTube, X, Instagram and TikTok. To howls of merriment from his panel, McAfee spelled out the rumor centered on a 19-year-old female student at Ole Miss, a public university in Mississippi, as it was 'being reported by everybody on the internet': that the student had sex with her boyfriend's father. 'Ole Miss dads are slinging meat right now!' roared 'Boston' Connor Campbell, one of McAfee's sidekicks. McAfee did not directly name Mary Kate Cornett, the college freshman at the center of the rumor, but she has since described how McAfee's amplification of this 'completely false' story encouraged others in the sports talk world to do likewise, resulting in her receiving a deluge of threats and harassment. Cornett has engaged lawyers to explore suing McAfee, ESPN and others involved in spreading the rumor for defamation. McAfee appeared moderately chastened by the episode: 'I never, ever want to be a part of anything negative in anybody's life, ever,' he said recently while addressing the outrage that his boosting of the rumor prompted. But he has not yet apologized, and in no way does his future as one of ESPN's most bankable stars seem in jeopardy. Whatever blowback ensued has blown right on by. The whole episode served as a demonstration of power: the world of sports influencers such as McAfee, which is particularly influential among young men and can be understood as an extension of the Donald Trump-aligned 'manosphere', now stands as an important bastion of the culture of insensitivity and entitlement on which Trumpism thrives. The Pat McAfee Show, a two-to three-hour afternoon blast of high-volume sports chat, sweating and raw, uncomplicated American male heterosexuality, launched in 2019. It has quickly become a favored media stop for many of the top names in US sports and culture. Tom Cruise spent 30 minutes on the show recently ('I appreciate the shit outta you,' McAfee told Cruise); LeBron James stopped by for an hour. Throughout the show's history, McAfee has courted controversy: he's called WNBA star Caitlin Clark a 'white bitch', he's made jokes about child abuse, he's helped air rumors linking celebrities to Jeffrey Epstein. None of it seems to matter: McAfee, whose show moved to ESPN on a five-year, $85m deal in 2023, powers on unperturbed, growing in cultural might with each passing month. McAfee is now the avatar of a new generation of sports talk stars who have upended the rules about public speech, remade culture in their own brash image, and are completely bulletproof. Among McAfee's peers in this dripped-out new world of costless needling are the Barstool Sports boss Dave Portnoy; former NFL players Will Compton and Taylor Lewan, who co-host the show Bussin' With the Boys; and NFL receiver-turned-podcaster Antonio Brown. Sports are also a major, though not exclusive, topic of conversation for Joe Rogan, Theo Von and other leaders of the manosphere. The Wikipedia pages of many of these figures contain hefty 'controversy' tabs. Portnoy has faced extensive and credible accusations of sexual misconduct; Brown refers to WNBA star Clark, an athlete on whom the anti-woke right seems psychotically fixated, as 'Cousin Itt', referencing the Addams Family's hirsute, non-verbal relative, and is so crassly sexist online that even the famously feminist redoubt of Barstool Sports has described him as a 'crackpot'. In an earlier era, reckless promotion of tasteless gossip about a teenager's sex life might have been enough to sink a career like McAfee's. Provocation, abrasiveness and a delight in offending have been essential to sports talk – on radio and cable TV – for decades. But in the years before social media, on-demand programming and betting turned sports into an all-hours, all-platforms juggernaut, there were still lines that sporting pundits could not cross: shock jock Don Imus, for instance, built his career on being outspoken but was fired by WFAN/MSNBC in 2007 after making racist and misogynist comments including describing the Rutgers women's basketball team as 'nappy-headed hos'. Today's sports broadcast world runs according to a new set of rules, in which 'respectable' TV and the demimonde of sports podcasts, streaming, and shitposting increasingly intersect: all engagement is good engagement, and the best type of filter is no filter. Whatever faint norms of decorum constrained earlier generations of professional sports talkers have faded completely. There's a reciprocal flow of testosterone and ideas between these shows, the world of sports, social media and real life. A handful of subjects and themes recur: veneration of the military, glorification of strength and traditional 'male' values, celebration of gambling, the denigration of women and anything thought to represent 'woke' culture. On any given day across the sporting bro-zone you might hear Bussin' With the Boys and their guests rail against pronouns and cancel culture, the hosts of Barstool Sports' Pardon My Take podcast argue Taylor Swift needs to 'release a sex video' to make her presence at NFL games tolerable to the average male fan, or McAfee devote 30 minutes (as he did recently) to describing his day among 'maybe the baddest motherfuckers on earth': the drill instructors at the US Marine Corps training center on Parris Island in South Carolina. These interests and obsessions mirror the president's cultural politics, turning the sports bros into critical emissaries for Trump's peculiar brand of popularly elected vandalism. It's worth questioning, of course, how influential these influencers really are. A recent poll from the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics found that 35% of young men had an unfavorable view of Rogan, while a further 36% had never heard of him or did not know enough about him to have an opinion. The much-rehearsed idea that the minds of young male voters have been irretrievably colonized by the manosphere is surely overblown. But there seems little dispute that these influencers have been effective in platforming rightwing figures and ideas. The sports bros are an essential part of that legitimizing apparatus – all the more so because their endorsement of the right's reflexes, priorities and modes of attack is couched in the ostensibly apolitical language of sports. The cultural supremacy of the sports bros is now so total that Barstool's Dave Portnoy is now famous for his online pizza reviews that can make or break restaurants in America. When a casual day trader from Massachusetts who built his media empire on college gambling advice becomes the arbiter-in-chief of America's favorite food, something fundamental has shifted in how we determine cultural authority. The unsinkability of these sporting mouths, bobbing forever on the surface of our cultural consciousness, parallels the envenomation of online discourse and the transformation of Trump from presidential punchline into the most consequential political figure of the century. Trump, let's not forget, first reached the White House after navigating a storm of outrage over the Access Hollywood tape, a victory that set a precedent for the practitioners of 'locker room talk' who have found fame in his wake. With the tacit endorsement of the sports bros, on whose shows he became a regular guest during last year's election, Trump not only seized the young male vote, he also engineered a complete reversal in his own reputation throughout the sporting world from his first to second terms. Interestingly, McAfee himself declined an invitation to have Trump on his show during last year's election campaign, reasoning that he and his sidekicks are 'not the ones' to be asking questions about politics – an uncharacteristic moment of modesty. But UFC-adjacent comedian Theo Von and Barstool Sports' Bussin' With the Boys both featured extended conversations with Trump during the campaign. These appearances showed Trump to be extremely well-versed in sports, which is perhaps no surprise when you consider the amount of time he spends tweeting about them, watching them and playing them – not to mention his own tangled history with the business side of sports (Trump owned a New Jersey-based team in the short-lived United States Football League during the 1980s). These podcasts also helped humanize Trump, presenting him as a relatable guy who works long hours and is sympathetic enough to engage a jumpy figure like Von in a conversation about drug addiction. The warm audience Trump received helped normalize his politics and support. Today the sporting world, with a few notable exceptions, genuflects before Trump in a way that seemed unthinkable during his first term. Beyond the unquivering Trumpian stronghold of Dana White's UFC, the big professional leagues such as the NFL and NBA either kept their distance from the 45th president or were at outright war with him; now No 47 is the guest of honor at the Super Bowl and every second athlete is doing the Trump dance, the double fist pump and minor hip swivel that the president has turned into his signature choreographic move on the campaign stage. The president's political endurance has perhaps, in turn, acted as a kind of bro bat signal, helping to validate the obnoxiousness and resistance to introspection on which the sports bros thrive: if he doesn't have to censor himself, apologize or pay lip service to feelings, why should they? The personality of American culture has long been split between purity and profanity. The death of consequences for figures like McAfee suggests the balance of power has definitively swung in favor of the trolls and tough guys, and now none of puritanical old America's sanctities will hold them back. It says everything about the sports bros' invincibility that among the top names floated by progressives to counter the blitzkrieg of Trump's second term and lead them to 2028 is Stephen A Smith, the sports pundit who turned relentlessness into a career and is something of a spiritual godfather to the McAfees and Portnoys of the world. The only person who can defeat a sports bro is another sports bro. Might there be another strategy for the left to combat this tide flooding the sporting-cultural zone? Recent reports suggest Democrats are slinging money to all corners of the country in a desperate attempt to find the progressive answer to Rogan: the chatter is all about 'speaking with American men' and investing to generate a 'return on culture', and Democrats such as Hakeem Jeffries and Josh Shapiro have in recent months zombied from sports podcast to sports podcast in a doomed and focus group-refined attempt to revive a cadaverous Democratic party with the tonic of their everyman cool. These appearances might be wooden and inauthentic, but it does suggest a key role for sports in the left's attempt to pull itself off the canvas following the catastrophe of last November. Sports are hardly the exclusive preserve of the right. The Golden State Warriors' four-time championship winning head coach, Steve Kerr, is probably the most vocal critic of Trumpism at work in American sports today, and Democrats have long associated themselves with sports: Barack Obama, of course, is an accomplished hooper, while Zohran Mamdani, the socialist candidate for New York City mayor who loves Arsenal and cricket and has spun his appearances at Knicks games during the recent NBA playoffs into campaign trail gold, is living proof that it's possible to be passionate and knowledgable about sports while eschewing the ugliness of bro culture. But left-leaning sports pundits? That's a tougher ask. The pallor of recent attempts to seed a more robust progressive presence online highlights how severely Democrats have been left behind in the new world of sports talk. Broadcasts such as the Pat McAfee Show are powerful engines of political orientation not because they address politics directly – they almost never do – but because their politics emerge in the interstices of everything said on screen. There aren't many popular voices in sports punditry that do for the left what McAfee and his cohort do, casually yet masterfully, for the right: embody an ethos, solidify an idiom and transmit a set of values that find a natural downstream outlet in electoral politics. Influential Twitch lefty Hasan Piker occasionally discusses sports but they are not his main focus; pundits such as Pablo Torre and Bomani Jones lean liberal but they do not have the same reach that the McAfees of the world do, and they don't express their politics with anything like the same splash. Over the past decade sports broadcasters who discussed politics from a leftist perspective, such as former ESPN host Jemele Hill, were gradually forced out of the mainstream. NFL star Travis Kelce, who hosts a popular podcast with his older brother Jason, seems vaguely progressive in orientation but he also said playing in front of Trump at this year's Super Bowl was 'a great honor', a tellingly wimpy political intervention. Like LeBron before him, he's too big to get too real, too good to get dirty; the Kelce-James brand of progressivism is very much by the book, a progressivism of the civics class. Where the right is loud, the sporting left speaks with a militant squeak. On-field athletic competition is about domination, strength, winners and losers, yes, but it's also about finesse, beauty, cunning and wit; it's a place where conservative fantasies of order and the cerebrations of the progressives can both find a home. But if any side should be controlling the field of sports talk, it is the left, since so many of the inequalities that plague society at large now infect sports as well, which are increasingly run on extractive lines for the benefit of predatory rentiers, autocrat-backed sovereign wealth funds and private-equity ghouls. Meanwhile the leveling mechanisms that still keep the American professional leagues interesting and unpredictable – collective wage bargaining, drafts, salary caps and luxury taxes – have their roots in this country's unlikely tradition of sporting socialism. Far from being a natural stage for the tiresome politics of cultural revenge in which the right traffics, sports (as a thing to shoot the shit about) offer a rich canvas for the exploration of many issues about which the left cares deeply: race, gender, class, social mobility and the corrupting influence of money. The left should not be afraid of learning from the lords of the sporting bro-zone even as it spurns their machismo and lack of tact. A culture used to crew necks can't go back to buttoned collars. For example, as part of his deal with ESPN, McAfee is allowed to swear live on TV: 'The following progrum is a collection of stooges talking about happenings in the sports world,' announces a disclaimer that airs before each show, read aloud in a geriatric voice reminiscent of Grampa Simpson. 'There may be some 'cuss' words because that's how humans in the real world talk.' This is one area where the bros and the left should make common cause: swearing is good. Viewers love McAfee not despite the fact he's loose, unpolished and has a dirty mouth; they love him because of these things. This is a man, let's not forget, who first came to prominence at age 23, while playing for the Colts, after being arrested in downtown Indianapolis for taking a pre-dawn swim in a canal. Asked to explain why he was soaking wet, McAfee replied: 'I am drunk.' The charge was dismissed but the hearts of a city were won, and a media career was born. Why can the left not take the best of McAfee and his ilk while jettisoning the worst? Surely it's possible to talk sports in a way that's biting, real, unfiltered, funny and even mean – to 'connect with men where they are', as we are repeatedly told the left must – without descending into toxicity, cruelty, belligerence and hate. If progressives want to reclaim the White House, they could do worse than to start rambling for hours on end about games and players that have nothing to do with politics at all. Sports-loving leftists of America, unite: you have nothing to lose but your parlays.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Is Anna Kendrick Dating Emmy Winner Alex Edelman? Here's What We Know
Is Anna Kendrick Dating Emmy Winner Alex Edelman? Here's What We Know originally appeared on Parade. Celebrities are people too — people who date other people. Some splash every new romance across Instagram. Others prefer a soft-launch so subtle you almost miss it. Anna Kendrick appears to fall in the latter camp, but even her stealth skills couldn't keep the rumor mill quiet for long. On Monday, July 7, an insider told People that the 39-year-old Pitch Perfect icon and Alex Edelman 'have been dating for several months,' adding that the relationship 'doesn't seem casual.' The source even revealed that Kendrick 'celebrated his birthday together in March' and has 'met his mom.' Reps for Kendrick and Edelman did not immediately respond to Parade's request for comment. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 The pair still hasn't said a word publicly, yet the cameras are doing plenty of talking. Paparazzi snapped the two cruising around Los Angeles in Edelman's blue Tesla earlier this week. Kendrick rode shotgun in sunglasses and a ponytail while the 36-year-old Emmy-winning comedian, wearing denim, was behind the wheel. If their timeline feels lightning-fast, gossip sleuths were actually on the trail months ago. DeuxMoi first dropped a tip in March, and by late May, fans clocked Kendrick at one of Edelman's shows. The online gossip column shared the sighting a couple weeks later, just in time for those cozy car pics to add even more fuel to the fire. Fans wasted no time weighing in. "This is a great match!! They are couple worthy!" one person cheered on Instagram. "Good for you girl! Healthy, healed and ready for something amazing" another gushed. "He better treat her right. I hope she gets treated like an absolute queen," chimed in a third. "My new nemesis!! She's my girl.. At least in my dreams," someone else quipped on X (formerly Twitter). The Twilight actress previously dated director Edgar Wright from 2009 to 2013, followed by cinematographer Ben Richardson from 2014 to 2020. She was last linked to Bill Hader before the pair split in 2022. 🌹 SIGN UP for our The Bachelor newsletter to stay up to date on the latest Bachelor Nation news, exclusive interviews, episode recaps & more 🌹 Later that year, Kendrick opened up about surviving emotional and psychological abuse in a past long-term relationship. Speaking to People, she said, 'I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself… Your life gets really confusing really quickly.' She didn't name the partner but told Call Her Daddy in 2024 that the relationship didn't 'follow the traditional pattern' of abuse, which made it harder to recognize. 'I was reading all the articles and going like, 'This doesn't look like — some of it looks like how they're describing it, but not completely,'' she recalled at the time. 'The relationship was seven years, but it was like an overnight switch, and that went on for about a year.' As for Edelman, he's known for his award-winning stand-up career. His Broadway show Just For Us earned him an Emmy, a Tony Award, and a spot on the 2024 TIME100 list. He's now writing and starring in The Paper, an Office spinoff coming to Peacock. Is Anna Kendrick Dating Emmy Winner Alex Edelman? Here's What We Know first appeared on Parade on Jul 9, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 9, 2025, where it first appeared.
